El Toucanet Lodge
Location: Copey de Dota
El Toucanet Lodge offers you spectacular views and personalized service, in a comfortable modern rustic atmosphere. The valley, the cloud forest and over 180 bird species including the resplendent quetzal make this area similar to Monteverde, but only one and a half hours from San José on good roads. As always catering to bird watchers and nature lovers and now offering unique eco-adventures from Santos Tour.
In our restaurant you will enjoy fresh home cooked meals, a mixture of Costa Rican and international, so you won´t miss out on the native goodies. The house speciality is baked fresh trout and homemade whole wheat breads. A cozy room with chimney to warm you up during chilly evenings enjoying a glass of good wine.
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El Toucanet Lodge restaurant and cabins
Spacious comfortable rooms with views. Hot water
Quetzal viewing is common at El Toucanet Lodge
The valley of Copey. Great birdwatching
Contact El Toucanet Lodge
Phone: (506) 2541 3045
Fax: (506) 2541-3045
Website URL: http://www.eltoucanet.com
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DOTA land of coffee and quetzals
LAND OF COFFEE AND QUETZALS
Dota gets its name from an Indian chief who visited the area from Quepos before the colonization. Santa María de Dota was discovered by Jose Maria Ureña Mora, who came from the Central Valley in search of a new homestead in the 1880´s . This man came to this valley with other families and claim the land, evoking their efforts to survival agriculture corn, beans, and vegetables. Sometime in the 1950´s coffee farming became the mainstay for many families resulting in the birth of COOPEDOTA (coffee co-op) in 1960. Little to know that the coffe from CoopeDota years later has become world renown for its high quality.
Now days CoopeDota is the economic motor of Santa Maria de Dota.
Today CoopeDota offers an authentic coffee tour, including a short walk through the processing plant following the coffee beans from harvest to a cup of exquisite coffee. This coffee tour can be booked during your stay at EL TOUCANET LODGE.
In the surrounding mountains of Santa María de Dota, inside the
Los Santos Forest Reserve exists the valley of Copey de Dota; a long time birdwatchers secret spot for common Quetzal sightings.
EL TOUCANET LODGE located in Copey is the perfect place to access
both the coffee farms and coffee tour and the nature reserves of the county of Dota; including the LOS QUETZALES NATIONAL PARK and
LAS VUELTAS BIOLOGICAL RESERVE.
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